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 | NICOLSON OF CLUNIE | Or three eagles' heads erased Gules. | Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary. 1673 |
 | NICHOLSON OF THAT ILK | Or three falcons' heads erased Gules armed Argent. | Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary. 1676 Stacie |
  | STEWART-NICOLSON OF CARNOCK | 1) Quarterly 1st & 4th Or a fess chequy Azure and Argent surmounted of a lion rampant gules 2nd Or a chevron chequy Sable and Argent between three martlets of the second 3rd Or three falcons' heads erased Gules beaked Sable within a bordure Azure. 2) Or three falcons' heads erased Gules beaked Sable within a bordure Azure. |
Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary. 1) 1st Matric 1792 2) 2nd Matric 1807 |
| NICOLSON OF LOCHEND Zetland | Or three falcons' heads erased Gules armed Argent. | Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary. 1826 |
 | 1) NICOLSON OF CARNOCK 2) Rt Hon Sir Arthur NICOLSON OF CARNOCK Bt | Or a lion's head between three falcons' heads erased Gules a bordure Azure. | 1) Sir James Balfour Paul's Scottish Ordinary - 1901 2)An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973 29th June 1907 19/34 |
 | Francis NICHOLSON | Azure a triangular castle Argent masoned Sable windows and portcullis Gules on a chief of the second three laverocks' wings endorsed proper. | An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973 9th July 1904 18/3 |
 | Norman Alexander NICHOLSON Tasmania | Or a chevron between three hawks' heads erased Gules. | An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973 9th July 1934 31/21 |
 | 1) John William NICOLSON 2) Iain Colin NICOLSON | Or a chevron between three falcons' heads erased Gules a bordure engrailed of the second charged with eight plates and a dexter canton a bull's head cabossed Sable. | An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973
1) 16th July 1958 42/118 |
 | William Douglas Marshall NICHOLSON | Gules on a pale Ermine between two roses Argent barbed and seeded proper three suns Or. | An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973 3rd August 1961 46/20 |
 | John Hubert NICOLSON | Or on a chevron Ermine between in chief two hawks' heads erased Gules and in base a dragon ship Sable under sail proper a boar's head erased Sable tusked Or accompanied by two crescents also Sable. | An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973 13th February 1969 52/21 |
 | John Stevenson NICHOLSON | Or a chevron nebuly between in chief two hawks' heads erased and in base a cross crosslet fitchee Gules a bordure chequy of the first and second. | An Ordinary of Arms Volume II 1902-1973 2nd August 1972 57/23 |
| Duncan NICHOLSON |
Per chevron Or and Azure two hawks' heads erased Gules in chief and a mullet Or in base. | Lyon Court 30th May 1988 (volume 71, folio 69) Great-great grandfather of Hammond Burke Nicholson |
 Full Achievement | Hammond Burke NICHOLSON Baron of Balvenie (1917-2007) |
Per chevron Or and Azure two hawks' heads erased Gules in chief and a mullet Or in base all within a bordure Gules. | Lyon Court
1st Matric. 20th September 1988. Lyon Register; volume 70, folio 52 |
 | George NICHOLSON of Twickenham, co. Middlesex | Or a fesse wavy Azure between four lions' gambs issuing out of each corner of the escutcheon Gules on a chief of the second a vessel of the first between two bezants. | Harleian Society's Middlesex Pedigrees |
 | Benjamyn NICHOLSON of Bromley, co. Surrey | Quarterly 1st & 4th Ermine on a pale Sable three martlets Argent 2nd & 3rd Gules a chevron cotised between three trefoils slipped Or. | Harleian Society's Visitations of Surrey 1530, 1572 and 1623 |
 | 1) Otho NICOLSON Examiner in the Court of Chancery 2) Francis NICOLSON of Chapell, co. Essex | Azure two bars ermine in chief Argent three suns in splendour Or. | 1a) Harleian Society's Grantees of Arms to the end of the XVII Century 7th September 1596 1b) Burke's General Armory 2) Harleian Society's Visitation of Essex 1634 |
 | 1)Sir Humphrey NICHOLSON Merchant 2) John Hampden NICHOLSON of Balrath Burry | Ermine on a pale Sable three martlets Argent. | 1) Harleian Society's London Visitation Pedigrees 1664 2) Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland, 1899 |
 | Stephen NICHOLSON of Roundhay Park, co. York | Bary of six Erminois and Gules on a chief Azure a cross patee Argent between two suns in splendour. | Burke's Commoners of Great Britain & Ireland - 1836/8 |
 | William Nicholson STEELE-NICHOLSON of Ballow, co. Down | Quarterly 1st & 4th Gules two bars Ermine in chief three suns Or (for Nicholson) 2nd & 3rd Argent a bend counter-compony Or and Sable between two lions' heads erased Gules on a chief Azure three billets Or (for Steele). | Burke's Commoners of Great Britain & Ireland - 1836/8 |
 | Alexander NICHOLSON of East Court, Gloucestershire | Quarterly 1st & 4th Or on a chevron embattled Azure between three eagles' heads erased Gules an Eastern crown between two wreaths of laurel of the first (for Nicholson) 2nd & 3rd Gules two estoiles in chief Argent and a lion passant in base Or on a chief of the second two swords saltier proper pommels and hilts Or the blades encircled by a wreath of laurel Vert from the centre chief point pendent by a ribbon of the first fimbrated Azure a representation of the medal presented to him by command of His Majesty for his services at the battle of Waterloo proper circumscribed "Waterloo" in letters of gold (for M'Innes). | Burke's Landed Gentry - 1847 Mr Nicholson assumed, by sign-manual, in Dec. 1821 the surname Nicholson in lieu of his patronymic M'Innes out of respect for his maternal uncle. |
 | Peter NICHOLSON of Thelwall , Cheshire | Quarterly 1st & 4th Azure two bars ermine in chief three suns Or (for Nicholson) 2nd & 3rd barry wavy of six Argent and Azure a crescent Or (for Seaman). | Burke's Landed Gentry - 1847 |
 | 1) Sir Charles NICHOLSON Bt of Sydeney & Luddenham, New South Wales 2) Sir Charles Archibald NICHOLSON Bt of Luddenham, New South Wales | Azure two bars nebuly Argent in chief a sun in splendour proper between two stars of eight points Or. | 1) Burke's Peerage 1881 2) Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage, 1923 |
 | Sir Frederick William Erskine NICOLSON Bt | Or a lion's head between three falcons' heads erased Gules a bordure of the last. | Burke's Peerage 1881 |
 | Sir Arthur John Frederick William NICOLSON OF THAT ILK Bt and of Lasswade | Or three falcons' heads erased Gules. | Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage, 1923 |
 | 1) Sir John Norris NICHOLSON Bt of Harrington Gardens 2nd Baronet 2) Sir Charles Christian | Per pale nebuly Azure and Gules two bars Argent guttee de poix in chief two suns in splendour proper. | 1) Debretts Perrage & Baronetage 1990 2) Who's Who 2004 |
 | Sir Godfrey NICHOLSON Bt 1st Baronet | Per pale Azure and Gules two bars geme ermine in chief three suns in splendour Or. | Debretts Perrage & Baronetage 1990 |
 Full Achievement | Aeofric Lachlan Bryan NICOLSON of Taransay | Gules an eagle displayed Or, armed beaked and membered Azure, holding in the dexter and sinister talons a star of eight points Argent, ensigned behind the head of the eagle a star of eight points of the Last, within a bordure company of the the Third and Fourth thereon are charged sixteen thistles palewise of the Third and Fourth counterchanged. | College of Arms 1993 |